Editing Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (section)

===Return to Senate and the drafting of Eisenhower===
In 1946 Lodge defeated Democratic Senator [[David I. Walsh]] and returned to the Senate. He soon emerged as a spokesman for the moderate, internationalist wing of the Republican Party. After World War II, which Lodge believed was in part caused by American isolationism, he came to advocate internationalism, saying: "The ideal of a provincial nation has given way to the realization that we have become the world's greatest power&nbsp;... World War II first taught us the value of collective security."{{sfn|Richardson|1985|p=151}}

In March 1950, Lodge sat on a subcommittee of the Government Operations Committee, chaired by Democratic Senator [[Millard Tydings]], which looked into Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]]'s list of possibly communist State Department employees. Lodge argued in hearings that Tydings demonized McCarthy and whitewashed McCarthy's supposed discovery of security leaks at the State Department.  Lodge told Tydings:

<blockquote>Mr. Chairman, this is the most unusual procedure I have seen in all the years I have been here. Why cannot the senator from Wisconsin get the normal treatment and be allowed to make his statement in his own way,&nbsp;... and not be pulled to pieces before he has had a chance to offer one single consecutive sentence.&nbsp;... I do not understand what kind of game is being played here.<ref>Tydings hearing p.11</ref></blockquote>

In July 1950, the record of the committee hearing was printed, and Lodge was outraged to find that 35 pages were not included.<ref>''Congressional Record'', July 24, 1950, 10813-14</ref> Lodge noted that his objections to the conduct of the hearing and his misgivings about the inadequacy of vetting suspected traitors were missing,<ref>''Congressional Record'', July 24, 1950, pp 10815-19.</ref> and that the edited version read as if all committee members agreed that McCarthy was at fault and that there was no Communist infiltration of the State Department.<ref>Tydings report, p. 167</ref> Lodge stated "I shall not attempt to characterize these methods of leaving out of the printed text parts of the testimony and proceedings&nbsp;... because I think they speak for themselves."  Lodge soon fell out with McCarthy and joined the effort to reduce McCarthy's influence.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Blacklisted by History|last = Evans|first = M.Stanton|publisher = Crown Forum|year = 2007|isbn = 978-1-4000-8105-9|location = USA|pages = [https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781400081059/page/444 444]|url-access = registration|url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781400081059/page/444}}</ref>

In late 1951, Lodge [[Draft Eisenhower|helped persuade]] General [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] to run for the Republican presidential nomination. When Eisenhower finally consented, Lodge served as his campaign manager and played a key role in helping Eisenhower to [[Republican Party (United States) presidential primaries, 1952|win the nomination]] over Senator [[Robert A. Taft]] of [[Ohio]], the candidate of the party's conservative faction.{{sfn|Richardson|1985|p=149}} Taft favored a quasi-isolationist foreign policy, being opposed to American membership in NATO and the United Nations, and Lodge wanted Eisenhower to run in order to pull the GOP away from Taft's ideology. Gossip talk of the day said that he reportedly declined an offer to be Ike's running mate.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}}